Live Earth

[Werd2406]

Does anyone know what networks/channels "Live Earth" will be broadcast on??

[Werd2406]

Well dont all rush for an answer at once ;)

[hefe]

http://www.google.com/search?q=live+earth+broadcast

http://www.liveearth.org/event.php

;)

[anom]

<Waits for this thread to inevitably turn into a global warming debunking, Al Gore bashing extravaganza>

I know XM is broadcasting the whole thing, btw.

[JimSpence]

Here's an old thread.
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=341075

[forecheck]

From an AVS thread:

The July 7th Live Earth Concert will be shown for 22 hours in HD on
Universal HD channel.

As well as SD on the various NBC owned cable channels.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=867232

[TostitoBandito]

Bumping this up. Starts tonight. Here is schedule info:

http://www.liveearth.msn.com/about/factsheet?GT1=10227

[Cainebj]

Don't you guys have TiVo's?

Do a title or keyword search for Live Earth.

That's what I did and all the broadcasts came right up...

[FilmCritic3000]

Aside from Universal HD, Live Earth will also be airing in its entirety, commercial-free, on sundance channel.

[MasterOfPuppets]

<Waits for this thread to inevitably turn into a global warming debunking, Al Gore bashing extravaganza>

I know XM is broadcasting the whole thing, btw.

Sirius is as well.

[TostitoBandito]

Who the hell are these idiots in Sydney with the "say no to nuclear energy" shirts and dancers doing the aboriginal equivilent of black-face routines? So many things wrong with that, I don't know where to start. I'm all for the enviornmental movement, reducing emmisions, and everything else Al Gore talked about, but stupid and ignorant stuff like that slogan just makes me realize why the movement probably won't accomplish anything meaningful. Hopefully sometime the anti-nuclear people will realize that in the real world "say no to nuclear" equals "say yes to oil/coal/gas". Oh, and the white dancers dressed like aborgines running around like monkeys were racist, or at least I thought they were. Maybe I misinterpreted it...

[super dave]

I have UHD on now for 15 minutes, 2 really strange short films, 2 songs and about 3 dozen commercials. How long are they thinking someone will stay tuned in at this rate?

Missy Higgins is real cute.

[FilmCritic3000]

I have UHD on now for 15 minutes, 2 really strange short films, 2 songs and about 3 dozen commercials. How long are they thinking someone will stay tuned in at this rate?

Missy Higgins is real cute.

Well, it's a concert with the theme of activism, specifically activism for global warming. You've got to figure it would feature things of that nature.

Also, the more prominent or "known" bands and musicians won't be on until 8:30AM (when bands and singers like Duran Duran, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Spinal Tap, James Blunt, Metallica, Beastie Boys, and Madonna, to name a few, will perform at Wembley Stadium in London) and 2:30PM (New York, where at Giants Stadium, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Police, Roger Waters, KT Tunstall, John Mayer, Melissa Etheridge, and The Dave Matthews Band, to name a few, will be performing), so perhaps they're thinking more people will be watching this later in the day and they can therefore air more promos, short films, and the like now instead of then.

Also, I'd like to add...who knew Toni Collette could ROCK like that? She performed with her band Toni Collette & the Finish in Sydney and all I've got to say is...WOW!

[CharlieW]

Nice to have Universal HD for this event. Looking forward to some great music today. Listening to Black Eyed Peas right now on Sirius. The Sirius feed seems to be approximately 15 seconds ahead of MSN on the web.

[Turtleboy]

Black Eyed Peas in UHD looked pretty good.

[TostitoBandito]

Chili Peppers on now. Just sped through the recording and Paul Simon, Linkin Park, and Black Eyed Peys were all good.

[FilmCritic3000]

The cable networks are presenting a "best of" and have sliced down several performances. The best part about watching the Live Earth concerts online is not being held at the mercy of either Universal HD, sundance channel, CNBC, Bravo, or NBC. You can pick and choose which concert to watch, LIVE, as it's airing.

http://liveearth.msnbc.com

Spinal Tap's currently playing in London right now. They played the song "Stonehenge". Two little people danced around small Stonehenge stones. David St. Hubbins took a call on his cell phone during an instrumental break in the song. Nigel came out saying, "Hello Wimbledon!"

Now they're playing "Warmer Than Hell".

This is great! :)

(*EDIT The Live Earth website is actually http://liveearth.msn.com*)

[Turtleboy]

Corinne Bailey Rae is quite impressive.

My problem with the live earth website is that to do the cool stuff you need to be on IE. I'm on a Mac.

[jsmeeker]

Corinne Bailey Rae is quite impressive.

My problem with the live earth website is that to do the cool stuff you need to be on IE. I'm on a Mac.


That's really messed up considering Al Gore is on the board of directors for Apple and a buddy of Steve Jobs.

[Turtleboy]

The cable networks are presenting a "best of" and have sliced down several performances. The best part about watching the Live Earth concerts online is not being held at the mercy of either Universal HD, sundance channel, CNBC, Bravo, or NBC. You can pick and choose which concert to watch, LIVE, as it's airing.

http://liveearth.msnbc.com
\)

That's liveearth.msn.com not msnbc.

[FilmCritic3000]

That's liveearth.msn.com not msnbc.

Damn! Thanks for that! I've been so measured today with that URL and I finally messed up! Grrr... :rolleyes:

The official webcast for Live Earth is

http://liveearth.msn.com

[FilmCritic3000]

Beastie Boys are coming up next in London!

[TostitoBandito]

Metallica

[CharlieW]

The coverage on Sundance/Bravo has been very disjointed.

They never know how to broadcast these type of events. On Bravo, after the Chili Peppers played, they played a few more artists -- John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae, Keane -- then all of a sudden they played another song from the earlier Chili Peppers set.

Rule #1 -- don't break up a band's set and then come back to them later -- it lessens the enjoyment for the viewers at home who will then turn off the show and fail to see the message that you're trying to deliver with these concerts.

[CharlieW]

Pussycat Dolls playing their last song of their set in London right now -- Foo Fighters are up next.

[TIVO_GUY_HERE]

Does anyone know what networks/channels "Live Earth" will be broadcast on??

Do you know how a Tivo works?

[Hoffer]

I've got my DVR recording this all day off UHD. I've sped through most of it and right now am about half an hour behind the live feed. Metallica was the only one I watched the entire set of. I watched two Beastie Boys songs. I've watched full songs of quite a few bands like Phil Collins, or was that Genesis? A lot of these musicians I've never even heard of.

[FilmCritic3000]

Melissa Etheridge just rocked Giants Stadium. Alicia Keys is next, followed by The Dave Matthews Band.

[Turtleboy]

Hey may be nuts but Yusuf Islam (nee Cat Stevens) looks at sounds great.

[TomK]

Hey may be nuts but Yusuf Islam (nee Cat Stevens) looks at sounds great.

He might not be nuts and he does sound great.

[timr_42]

Have not seen any of it. I turned my tv and receiver, both use a lot of power, off to conserve electricty.

Just doing my part.

[Rocketslc]

From an AVS thread:

The July 7th Live Earth Concert will be shown for 22 hours in






So if everyone leaves their TV on for 22 hours will this help slow the climate change ?

[jsmeeker]

Hmmmm... John Mayer with The Police?

[jsmeeker]

Have not seen any of it. I turned my tv and receiver, both use a lot of power, off to conserve electricty.

Just doing my part.


lol...


good thing you saved some juice to post. :)

[Turtleboy]

Madonna is a genius.

It's amazing that this generation has Brittney Spears, who is all breast and no brain.

[Langree]

Madonna is a genius.


Never a word I would associate with her.

[Turtleboy]

Never a word I would associate with her.

I'm not a big fan. Don't have any of her albums, never seen her live.

But I think it's accurate. Her ability to keep herself modern for over 20 years, to constantly be changing it up, to keep her finger on the pulse of popular culture, to market herself, is nothing sort of genius.

I think her set was fantastic.

[TheDewAddict]

While I can't say I particularly enjoyed the first song they played, the rest of the Smashing Pumpkins set was awesome. I can't wait for their new album. I've been waiting 7 years for it, but the next 2 days will be torture.

Is their new single really pronounced tar-an-TU-la, or was that a lame joke by Billy?

[joemamafresh]

OMG! i cannot believe i missed her! what did she do? i'm sure i'll be able to find it somewhere online...but i wanted to see it live, dammit!

I'm not a big fan. Don't have any of her albums, never seen her live.

But I think it's accurate. Her ability to keep herself modern for over 20 years, to constantly be changing it up, to keep her finger on the pulse of popular culture, to market herself, is nothing sort of genius.

I think her set was fantastic.

[LoadStar]

OMG! i cannot believe i missed her! what did she do? i'm sure i'll be able to find it somewhere online...but i wanted to see it live, dammit!
Well, all of the feeds are looping right now on the Live Earth website, so you can probably catch it once more today that way... otherwise, the website is talking about having on-demand video available tomorrow.

If I recall correctly, she did "Hey You," "Ray Of Light," "La Isla Bonita," and "Hung Up."

[TostitoBandito]

While I can't say I particularly enjoyed the first song they played, the rest of the Smashing Pumpkins set was awesome. I can't wait for their new album. I've been waiting 7 years for it, but the next 2 days will be torture.

Is their new single really pronounced tar-an-TU-la, or was that a lame joke by Billy?

They only showed one or two songs from them on UHD I think. What else did they play?

[TheDewAddict]

They only showed one or two songs from them on UHD I think. What else did they play?

They actually showed their entire set on Bravo (I think). They played a new song first (complete with Jimi Hendrix style 'Star Spangled Banner' in the middle), then Bravo went to commercial. When they came back, they played Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Tarantula, and Today.

[FilmCritic3000]

They actually showed their entire set on Bravo (I think). They played a new song first (complete with Jimi Hendrix style 'Star Spangled Banner' in the middle), then Bravo went to commercial. When they came back, they played Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Tarantula, and Today.

The new song is from their new album Zeitgeist. The title of the song is "United States", hence "The Star Spangled Banner" break in the middle.

[FilmCritic3000]

While I can't say I particularly enjoyed the first song they played, the rest of the Smashing Pumpkins set was awesome. I can't wait for their new album. I've been waiting 7 years for it, but the next 2 days will be torture.

Is their new single really pronounced tar-an-TU-la, or was that a lame joke by Billy?

It's just a lame joke by Billy. At their concert in Berlin on June 5th, he told the crowd that he named the song that in honor of the band The Scorpions.

[rich]

I turned on the NBC coverage for a little while, just in time to see Ann Curry badgering Al Gore about whether he was going to run for office again. He kept hemming and hawing and trying to change the subject back to Live Earth and she just wouldn't let it go.

[TonyTheTiger]

I missed more of it live, but caught a few acts on Youtube yesterday.

A couple of lowlights for me...

Kanye West withThe Police - WTF was that???????????

Confirmation that Roger Waters is nothing without Dave, Rick and Nick. Man, if you can't sing, do what Carlos Santana does and get someone who can! His attempts at classic PF was just painful.

(To put that last statement into context, I'm a HUGE PF fan and I've seen them live both with and without Roger. He's a great songwriter and visionary, but he just plain can't sing!).

[Mikkel_Knight]

I really hope that there's a DVD set of the performances that is going to be released at some point... (proceeds, of course, going to save the earth... heh)

[Marco]

Madonna is a genius.

It's amazing that this generation has Britney Spears, who is all silicone and no brain.

FYP ;)

Ironically enough, Britney is spelled with only one 't' :D

[Marco]

I really hope that there's a DVD set of the performances that is going to be released at some point... (proceeds, of course, going to save the earth... heh)

Yeah, that'd be nice, considering how hard you had to work to see the music on Saturday's coverage.

In person I bet they were great shows. On TV it was more like a telethon.

[LoadStar]

Yeah, that'd be nice, considering how hard you had to work to see the music on Saturday's coverage.

In person I bet they were great shows. On TV it was more like a telethon.
The online feeds were very good. Commercial free, everything shown in it's entirety, and the audio was surprisingly good for as many people as were watching it.

Unfortunately, they took the full concert streams down and replaced them with the on demand clips, and now you have to sit through commercials before every song, and not every song is even up (looks like they dropped at least 1 song from every single set).

[jlb]

Live Earth Trivia:

What guitar-playing performer has the best abs?

Why, Shakira of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwFOy56Q_Es

Who knew she could play guitar. Shame on me for not knowing that and thinking she was all abs......

[DeDondeEs]

I had this concert on most of the day Saturday. I think they pulled it off really well. Great production quality and they kept things flowing. I really liked Metallica, Bon Jovi, Madonna, Ethridge, Linkin Park, and Lenny Kravitz.
I was really looking forward to the Police, but I was disappointed. Sting sings those classic rock songs with his toned down solo act voice, it really ruins it for me, not to mention Mayer and Kanye West.

[jlb]

I perused tons of youtube video and the overall best perf for me was Bon Jovi doing Dead or Alive.....if for no other reason that that is one of the best, if not THE best, stadium rock songs ever (IMHO of course).

[ping]

I really hope that there's a DVD set of the performances that is going to be released at some point... (proceeds, of course, going to save the earth... heh)

You should wait until it shows up on bittorrent. You know--to save the oil used to produce the discs and transport them and all.

[Mikkel_Knight]

You should wait until it shows up on bittorrent. You know--to save the oil used to produce the discs and transport them and all.
Well, I want quality production on the concerts...

the whole "preachy telethon" BS between artists is something I don't need to be bothered with again...

[Langree]

Well, I want quality production on the concerts...

the whole "preachy telethon" BS between artists is something I don't need to be bothered with again...

You don't think they'll leave "the message" intact on the dvd's?

[mattack]

The coverage on Sundance/Bravo has been very disjointed.

They never know how to broadcast these type of events. On Bravo, after the Chili Peppers played, they played a few more artists -- John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae, Keane -- then all of a sudden they played another song from the earlier Chili Peppers set.

OK, I wondered if the other networks were doing this too. I recorded the Bravo show on my non-Tivo DVR (with a bit of overlaps on my Tivo during times I had to stop the recording to dub to DVD before I left, to make space).. and it did seem very disjointed.

I was going to ask here what the other networks did.. I wonder what other countries' networks did. Did they play full concerts with far less 'host' talking head stuff?

What I *did* see (some Genesis, Police, Keith Urban/Alicia Keys, Alicia Keys) was very good, and I'm likely to buy it on DVD.. (which I hope it will...) at least when it falls down to the $20 range!

[mattack]

A couple of lowlights for me...

Kanye West withThe Police - WTF was that???????????


Not a defense, but ....
Umm, didn't he do a remake of a Police song, and Sting did the intro? (At least I saw that on the Grammies or something a few years ago..)

Also, on "Bring on the Night", AFAIR, one of the good Sting songs is almost ruined by a rapper in the middle of it.. so it's not a new thing.

[Mikkel_Knight]

You don't think they'll leave "the message" intact on the dvd's?
Sure they will, but I won't have to watch that chapter... Nor will a specific artist be interrupted by some inane "go green, it's healthy" garbage from Uncle Al...

How disappointing was the Garth Brooks song? Get a single mic for the actual verse-singer(s) and then another mic for the vocal choral singer(s). Poorly executed. Great song for the theme, but extremely poorly executed...

[FilmCritic3000]

Not a defense, but ....
Umm, didn't he do a remake of a Police song, and Sting did the intro? (At least I saw that on the Grammies or something a few years ago..)

Also, on "Bring on the Night", AFAIR, one of the good Sting songs is almost ruined by a rapper in the middle of it.. so it's not a new thing.

That was actually Sean Combs/Puff Daddy/P. Diddy. It was a reworking of "Every Breath You Take" which became "I'll Be Missing You" in memory of Combs' friend and fellow rapper Chris Wallace/Notorious B.I.G./Biggie Smalls. Sting sang part of it live at an awards show.

[BrandonRe]

I saw the Black Eyed Peas "Let's get it started (retarded)". Am I crazy, or did the crowd look like they didn't know how to respond, and maybe even were displeased at the end of the song? They cut away immediately, but I got the impression that the noise coming from the crowd wasn't cheering...I'm surprised they let them sing the original lyrics, since they had to change the song to "Let's get it started" to get radio play.

[Cainebj]

Live Earth Trivia:
What guitar-playing performer has the best abs?
Why, Shakira of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwFOy56Q_Es
Who knew she could play guitar. Shame on me for not knowing that and thinking she was all abs......

Am I the only one who thinks that she actually CAN NOT play the guitar and that it was just a prop and it wasn't even plugged in?

[Langree]

Am I the only one who thinks that she actually CAN NOT play the guitar and that it was just a prop and it wasn't even plugged in?

She had a guitar? on stage? at the same time?

I must of missed it.


:p

[DeDondeEs]

Am I the only one who thinks that she actually CAN NOT play the guitar and that it was just a prop and it wasn't even plugged in?

I'd put Madonna in that category too.

[Cainebj]

Well perhaps Madonna was not plugged in
- but at least she puts in a good effort to watch her hands changing chords... :)

[RunnerFL]

Well perhaps Madonna was not plugged in
- but at least she puts in a good effort to watch her hands changing chords... :)


Unfortunately Madonna was plugged in, this was proven by the fact that she had that guy helping her feedback... How pathetic is it that she needed help, that's one of the first things you learn to do with an electric guitar.

I was impressed by a couple of the Japanese bands in Tokyo. I was impressed by both Abingdon Boys School [Even though they were dressed as school girls] and Rize. Both were very talented and better than 80% of the other bands on that day.

[FilmCritic3000]

Am I the only one who thinks that she actually CAN NOT play the guitar and that it was just a prop and it wasn't even plugged in?

The whole belly-dancing thing she's been doing since she was 10.

And she actually can play the guitar. I saw her do so on MTV Unplugged a few years ago, and it wasn't just for one song. She's written or co-written all of her albums. Early in her career, some of the music she made in her native country was more of the Alanis Morissette variety. I'm not a pop fan but Shakira's most certainly not a Britney Spears.